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| Criterion |  Decision Making Decision Rights Mapping |  Growth Pirate Metrics AARRR |  Growth A/B Testing |  Product Discovery Assumption Mapping |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Purposedifferent | In organizations with many stakeholders, it often blurs who actually decides and who is merely consulted. It separates options, evaluation criteria, and open risks. The result is captured as a Decision Rights matrix and an agreement. | For products with complex usage paths, overall growth alone is too coarse to reveal bottlenecks. Pirate Metrics breaks the relationship with the product into consecutive stages and shows where the funnel actually leaks. | When two variants compete, discussions quickly decide by taste rather than effect. A/B Testing checks behavior under controlled conditions and separates real improvement from chance or expectation effects. | When assumptions still sit unordered in the room, it weighs uncertainty against leverage. It makes visible which hypotheses should be checked first. |
Complexitydifferent | Medium | Medium | High | Medium |
Timedifferent | 90-180 min | 1-2 h Setup, laufend | 1-4 Wochen | 45-60 min |
Participantsdifferent | 4-12 | 2-8 | 1-6 | 2-8 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop | Workshop + async | Async | Workshop + async |
Outputdifferent | Decision Rights Matrix, Agreement | AARRR funnel, Metric baseline, Experiment backlog | Experiment results, Decision log, Learning summary | Assumption map, Test backlog, Risk ranking |
Tagsno overlap | DecisionGovernanceAlignmentResponsibility | GrowthMetricsExperiments | ExperimentsGrowthAnalyticsValidation | AssumptionsRiskExperimentsValidation |